Does excluding sin stocks cost performance?

Interest - “ Loan Cost ” or “ Sin ” ?

Interest has appeared from the people need to borrow main agricultural products. Over the time, it has been the subject for many theories-for interest, and against interest-all of them having various reasons. Church has, in general, forbidden interest, but the economic reasons have won, considering fair to reward the creditor for the time passed from the moment of loaning, for the monetary deva...

Very Preliminary Comments Welcome Are sin stocks paying the price for their accounting sins?

A recent study by Hong and Kazperczyk (2005) finds that sin stocks – publicly-traded stocks in the gaming, tobacco, and alcohol industries are neglected by the stock market despite generating abnormal stock returns. We examine a rational explanation for their findings. Are the excess returns and investor neglect of sin stocks attributable to higher levels of information risk arising from poor f...

Does Low Cost Large Panel Processing mean Low Performance?

The Large Area Processing for thinfilm substrates can be used to reduce the cost per layer per area significantly. Various process setups exist to achieve this goal, and they differ in terms of process tolerances and cost. As different process tolerances result in different performance tolerance bands of the produced structures, customers may want to chose the right process to obtain sufficient...

Does RFID Reduce Out of Stocks? A Preliminary Analysis

Does Performance Monitoring Work? A Review of the Evidence from the UK Public Sector, Excluding Health Care

This paper reviews the use of performance monitoring in the UK public sector, excluding its use in health care. Our focus is on finding robust evidence that evaluates the success of the introduction of performance monitoring in terms of its impact both on behaviour and on final outcomes. We begin with a general discussion of performance monitoring (hereafter PM), before considering the nature o...